Mark Smith's Bob Graham Round Blog

This blog chronicles a mid-pack fellrunner's build up to completing the Bob Graham Round on June 30th 2007. It will record the highs, the lows and the details for no other reason than to help me realise how far I've come should the doubts appear and possibly to help anyone else who, like me, has more ambition than talent!

Sunday, 14 October 2007

The party's over.

It was the BGR dinner last night, and Alison and I are now hungover and knackered. It was a late finish, crawling up from the bar and into b...

Friday, 21 September 2007

Time to move on

Three months ago tomorrow I had the most memorable day of my life. Unlike when I got married, when the day passed with such a blur, the BGR ...

Friday, 27 July 2007

Postscript - Recovery and Reflection

A month has passed and it's only now that I feel sufficiently removed from the BGR to be able to adequately reflect on it. Up to now, th...

Monday, 9 July 2007

Mark's BGR - 29th/30th June 2007

The night before... Technically, my BGR started at 6.55 on Friday evening (29th June), but really, it felt underway when I arrived at the hu...

Tuesday, 3 July 2007

23:32

A more comprehensive report will follow when i have some photos to post. The fact that people have actually been reading this blog means tha...

Wednesday, 27 June 2007

Weds 27 June - Wet weather beckons...

Just had a look at the mwis forecast and it does not look great. But it does not look terminal either. It looks like the start will be fine,...

Monday, 25 June 2007

w/c 25th June - Excited, hopeful, determined, daunted

Everyone has a bit of their brain which, if I was a brain scientist, would be referred to as 'The Cheese Factory' . It's this pa...

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